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Here collaborates with City Digital on urban mobility

First publishedin ITS World Congress

2017

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asHere links up with City Digital

Monali Shah, director of intelligent transportation at Here

Here Technologies has announced a new collaboration with City Digital that is focused on creating innovative solutions to optimise urban transportation and mobility networks for the benefit of individuals, cities and businesses.

Here Technologies will lead the City Digital consortium’s first urban logistics pilots aimed at traffic mitigation and facilitating last mile urban deliveries and logistics. The company will make a range of location technologies available to support the pilots, including enterprise-grade digital maps, multi-modal navigation and routing tools, real-time and historical road traffic analytics, and developer tools.

“Here’s powerful location platform adds a unique capability to the City Digital consortium, allowing us to develop new services and tools that resonate with people’s experience in space and time,” said Brenna Berman, executive director of City Digital and the former chief information officer for the city of Chicago. In addition to leading new pilots, Here’s technology will support existing work, such as the Cubs Night Game Alerts programme involving Mastercard, Microsoft, and the Chicago Transit Authority.

“We are excited to join City Digital and its partners as we work together on meaningful innovation and technology deployments in Chicago,” said Angel L. Mendez, executive VP and COO of Here Technologies.

“Through our collaborations and use of Here location-based services, we have the unique opportunity to increase resident mobility, optimise city infrastructure and service delivery, and begin to plan the cities of tomorrow.”

Future initiatives may include the use of the Here Technologies’ Open Location Platform for digital infrastructure management, such as merging the locationof curbs, parking and loading restrictions with real-time transport data for optimal curbside space allocation.